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Topic: Scam alert: do "out-of-office" e-mail autoreplies help burglars?
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Chris JohnsonPerson was signed in when posted  5
12-10-2002 07:48 PM ET (US)
Err Mike, I'm in a company of a dozen people. We all know who is on holiday. It's our 1,000s of customers (students, their families) that need to know that the person they want is not available (and that if what they want is urgent, they should contact reception).
jleaderPerson was signed in when posted  4
12-10-2002 04:38 PM ET (US)
I'm a little dubious about how serious a threat this is, certainly at larger companies the fact that one employee is on vacation is unlikely to be that big a vulnerability.

My father-in-law used to have a small business selling and repairing industrial electic motors and power tools, and every summer he'd put a sign on the door saying they were going to be closed for a week. I don't think they ever had any problems during those vacations, though I think they had a couple minor break-ins at night, _not_ during vacations.

I'm also curious where crooks get big lists of people's _work_ email addresses, correlated with their _home_ geographic addresses?
Rev Modesty B Catt  3
12-10-2002 12:27 PM ET (US)
Edited by author 12-10-2002 12:33 PM
Ooh ooh, I've been thinking 'bout this for a while but with an eye to blogs and in particular "moblogs".

More and more people are thinking that blogs are hip and cool, putting their whole life on the web for everyone to see. Of course the problem with this is that when you're, say, blogging about how you and the family are amazed at the number of WiFi points kicking around on your trip down Route 66, *everyone* knows you're not at home.

Worse still when people start moblogging...

11:32 - "I'm going to the shops to buy some new towels"

11:56 - "Here I am in Crate and Barrel, look I've taken pictures of the towels with my phone, please vote on which ones I should buy"

12:24 - "Well 2 people said red and 1 said blue, isn't technology great, how it joins people no matter where they are, even during everyday things"

14:23 - "Whee, I'm walking up the road to my house, should take me another 20mins, isn't the view great!"

14:45 - "Oh look, while I was out, my house has been broken into, looks like I just missed them too. Wait, here's a note it says 'Buy the blue ones. PS. You'll need a new VCR, Microwave, TV...'"

...so, is blogging *everything* such a good thing?
Mike  2
12-10-2002 10:06 AM ET (US)
This is SO easy to fix. Set the mail server to not allow out-of-office replies to be sent to addresses outside the company.

The sysadmin who doesn't set this up doesn't know how to do their job.
rich  1
12-10-2002 09:59 AM ET (US)
I've always been amused by the effect of posting to Bugtraq, the full-disclosure computer security mailing list -- *dozens* of autoreplies, all essentially saying "Thank you for your message on how to break into computers. I'm a sysadmin at such-and-such a company, and I'm out for two weeks!".
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